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Lewis Thomas has 132 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him,…
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Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real…
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.…
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I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to…
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Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat…
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I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,…
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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things,…
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be…
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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles,…
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There…
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality…
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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.
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Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at…
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I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.
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While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team…
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Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,
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Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings…
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The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.
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Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection…
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What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like…
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I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I…
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I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of…
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